Calls on fringe tax
PA Wellington The Leader of the Opposition, Mr McLay, said yesterday his office had been inundated with calls from people giving examples of the extreme lengths to which the Inland Revenue Department had gone to extract fringe benefit tax.
He said the best example was of a dairy fanner on the WesLCoast rho employed oneHinan.
“He informed us that he had just had a visit from two Inland Revenue Department employees who drove 160 km from Greymouth to ask whether he had given his one employee a no-in-terest loan, shouted him any meals, and whether he had held a Christmas party for this solitary staff member," Mr McLay said. “The sole of the visit was to checc on
his fringe benefit tax return and he was astounded that two departmental employees had travelled that distance to ask him about Christmas parties and free meals for one solitary farm worker.
"Even if he had provided these perks—which he had not —the cost of the journey would have been far greater than any revenue recovered,” Mr McLay said.
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